Posted on 01/17/2019 5:41:25 AM PST by sodpoodle
I looked my name up in google and this website "mylife.com" came up.
It had my full name, my myspace link, my age, and a list of all the cities I've lived in. Even a picture of me. But I NEVER joined this website.
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So, you think marriage records, property purchases, etc., should all be private instead of available to the public? What about the phonebook (if anyone still uses those?) What records, precisely, are you trying to obscure, and why? MyLife didn’t do anything other than take aggregate info that’s already public.
Speaking of cars, jewelry, etc., I’m amazed at the amount of info bad guys can get just looking at the photos on real estate sites. People leave their guns out when photos are being taken, so you know exactly where they are. Expensive cars in garages. Just TMI, IMHO.
If you can't beat 'em, deceive 'em. You can do all this just by managing the information on the free page, no log in, no buy in.
“The right to privacy ...”
Can you define “The right to privacy”? Can you define “privacy”? Just so we all know what we’re talking about.
I just looked up mine. They say I lived in Chicago, never did. They list relatives including dead father. But none of my adult children. They said I went to college in New Mexico, never happened. My net worth and income are very wrong. My job is 4 years out of date. My neighbors are as many as 30 years out of date. And there are some neighbors I think are just wrong. So I suspect that they have some algorithm that scans and collects public information. They then make some assumptions and throw it in a bio. There is one sentence that reads, “Dave is now u.” I have no idea what “u” is. But I would say, that if you were a private investigator, you could start with this pile of miss information. And do some digging, to figure out what parts are true. And what parts are old or just wrong. Maybe that is what the FBI does, or people handing out secret clearances.
You did read my bio!!!!!! LOL!!!!!
You can look at famous peoples bio too. I just looked at Hillary’s. Its clear here PR firm has edited it. But it gets her High school wrong. It ignores her eight years in the white house. And it does grab a lot of pictures from somewhere.
Remember when you where in school and some teacher said this would go on your permanent record and you laughed like it was a joke. Well it was no joke.
Information on each and everyone of us exist. Almost everything we do leaves a trail. Up until there were computers and then when storage space became cheap it was difficult to first gather and then sort that amount of data each of us creates by just living.
Now computer processing is fast and storage is immense and so your life is being saved somewhere without your knowledge or permission.
Welcome to the bold new world of 1984
PS - search your FreeRepublic user name - you will be surprised with what comes up
I’ll be chasing my Tail!
Thanks.
better to chase someone else’s
I understand the commerce of sharing data, but there is no lawful reason for someone’s name, dob, phone #, finances, relatives etc., should be available to anyone/everyone.
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What laws exist against it?
What is the definition of commerce?
What the ultimate aggregator does with the information is their business, meaning it IS the nature of the business.
The public info is listed in the clear. Then they charge for credit reports, criminal records, legal records, etc.
There are sites that advertise a charge of $1 and then charge $20 when it hits your card, even if they are wrong. They will produce a death certificate with the name queried that then turns out to be incorrect, for example. Search people you know are deceased and often you will get hits that claim they are alive, giving the age they would be today if they were still living.
I believe there are services that will scrub your information from the net for a fee.
“Well, I checked them out, they made one big mistake about me, they said I was Asian/American. I’m not.”
They made the same mistake about me. I wonder what bit of data they’re misinterpreting?
I did all that but the changes were not saved.
I just went back today and all my changes were still there and I added more. Try again, maybe they changed the web page format since you last tried.
I noticed this the other day when looking up someone I lost contact with through the years. Had her income, neighbors....even the car she drives. Scary stuff!!
On other similar websites, I have found addresses of gov’t workers ie lois learner, Manafort, Comey, etc.
If you think that is disturbing, you should see what Google accumulates for the American Democratic Party, and the Communist Party of China.
Artificial Intelligence software mines mountains of data on every keystroke you make, every site you view, and how long you look at each page, every bank account or credit card transaction, who your friends are, and where you are every minute of the day (if you have a cell phone with you). They can tell things about us that we don’t even realize ourselves.
I just looked up ‘barack obama’ in zip code 20008. It says he is 33 years old.
They’re mining a lot of data bases to create a shadow profile on you. Not quite as thorough as Facebook looking at every mention of people and pulling in data from sites you didn’t think they mined to create a profile of you without your permission.
The irony here is that MyLife is LESS accurate than many. They throw in lots of correlations that are maybes, then encourage you to sign up and “correct” their wrong report. One example is tying you to an ex-partner and saying maybe you’re associated with their debts and address ... and don’t you want to correct that info so their mistakes don’t hurt you? Or they associate prior residents of your home with your data, so the warrants and liens for prior residents are “maybes” against you.
This is blackmail.
*****PS - search your FreeRepublic user name - you will be surprised with what comes up*****
Are you referring to ‘Viking Kitties’ blog. Like this?
http://vikingkitties.blogspot.com/2014/05/spotlight-friday-humblegunner.html
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